{"id":61356,"date":"2016-12-11T18:33:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T01:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=61356"},"modified":"2016-12-11T18:33:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T01:33:30","slug":"thanks-best-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2016\/12\/11\/thanks-best-wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks &#038; Best Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM \u00a0United Sri Lanka Association,Wellington New Zealand.<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Rt Hon John Key MP,<br \/>\nPrime Minister of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr.Key,<\/p>\n<p>On the eve of your retirement after a most successful tenure as the Prime Minister of New Zealand, I write to convey the thanks of the United Sri Lanka Association, for having steered New Zealand to stability and prosperity so effectively in the last eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Our association wishes also to record our deep appreciation of the support you offered Sri Lankan during this period, most particularly by attending and supporting the CHOGM in Colombo 2013, visiting Sri Lanka again in 2016 and fostering much goodwill and mutually beneficial trade and \u00a0other ventures and most recently hosting Sri Lankan Prime Minister Rt. Hon. Ranil Wickramasinghe and his delegation and so further strengthening these ties between our two countries. This we understand \u00a0is going to result among other things, in \u00a0having High Commissioners representing each other in our two countries very soon.<\/p>\n<p>Though we will certainly miss your reassuring presence at the helm, we have every confidence that the new team that has slipped into replace you with no rancour at all, would be able to carry further \u00a0your good work for all of New Zealand as you have done.<\/p>\n<p>Our very \u00a0best wishes are with you in your further endeavours, what ever they may be in the coming years.<\/p>\n<p>With many thanks once again,<\/p>\n<p>Yours Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM<\/p>\n<p>FRCP\/FRACP<\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson,<\/p>\n<p>United Sri Lanka Association,<\/p>\n<p>Wellington New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM \u00a0United Sri Lanka Association,Wellington New Zealand. Rt Hon John Key MP, Prime Minister of New Zealand. Dear Mr.Key, On the eve of your retirement after a most successful tenure as the Prime Minister of New Zealand, I write to convey the thanks of the United Sri Lanka Association, for having steered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}